This is a placeholder website for the chronicling of … ‘The PC Inquisition’ isn’t too far off. Bleg from all of you to help me expand it via crowd-sourcing. The dates are not consistent, sometimes it is from the ‘offending event’, other times it is from the purging or just the publication dates of the news stories. As of 11-JAN-2015, this post has now been read by over 30,000 people.

10-OCT-1959: Revilo Oliverpurged from National Review. A complex personality – the sixth generation in his family to bear the burden of a purposefully palindromic name. Archive at Unz.org

15-MAR-2004: Ted Rall purged from New York Times. (it’s a thing with him, see below)

30-JUN-2004: Rachel Ehrenfeld found liable by default judgment by British Court after successful libel-tourism suit brought by the Bin Mahfouz family (it’s kind ofa patten with them). The case is important for illustrating not just the legal controversy, but the willingness of certain nations to extent to private parties the ability to commandeer the judicial apparatus on mere pretext for speech-suppressive ends.

01-MAY-2010: Peter Duesberg investigated by UC Berkeley. (later dropped, though I think his clinging to his AIDS stuff over all the years of contrary evidence is pure derp, but still if shouldn’t have had the effect on Charlton below.)

18-MAR-2014: Hempstead (IVO Houston, Texas) Middle School Principal Amy Lacey purged (othercoveragelinks) for strongly encouraging students and teachers to speak English in the classroom.

24-MAR-2014: Brendan Eich experiences purging campaign to get him fired at CEO of Mozilla due to $1,000 donation in 2008 in support of California Proposition 8, which succeeded at the polls, if not in the courts. OkCupid goes all in on full, guilt-by-association excommunication . The flipside of campaign funding transparency is the the risk of being on the receiving end of the politics of personal destruction. Talk about a chilling effect. But, naturally, the same people would publicly lose their minds with maximum mouth foaming if they heard of a company firing someone because they contributed to the campaign to oppose proposition 8. UPDATE: Sigh, purged. Depressing and predictable. Only missing the ‘to spend more time with his family’ line.

26-ARP-2014: Donald J. Sterling playing defense after ‘racist’ comments. (HT: Sailer) (UPDATE: fined, purged.) Look, by all accounts, this guy was an awful sleezeball and deserved what he got. Fine. Nevertheless, this was also obviously a baited setup (100 hours of secretly and illegally recorded conversations with the floozy?), and no one butSailer’s been covering the real story behind the ouster instead of leveraging the media hysteria-catnip of the race-opera to cover it up. No One. That should trouble you. And no one’s been making the obvious, prospective point, which is that today, Big Brother Is Everyone. Hell is other people. With smartphones, everybody’s carrying their own personal wire all the time. If the adventuress isn’t convicted, then the signal to everyone else is that there is zero cost to extracting something juicy from the right person, and the deterrence effect is destroyed. Imagine a future where everyone is their own Stasi, keeping an option-for-extortion retirement fund archive, and incentivized to get people to trust them and reveal their un-PC opinions in private. People, it’s all going downhill.

01-MAY-2014: Josh Olin purged from Turtle Rock for tweeting the following about #161 to his 142K followers, “Here’s an unpopular opinion: Donald Sterling has the right as an American to be an old bigot in the security of his own home. He’s a victim.” He’s not the only one now, Josh! (HT: Ace) Pro-tip #1: If you start a tweet under your own name with, “Here’s an unpopular opinion,” and you rely even indirectly on popularity, then you’re doing it wrong in the #hashtag advocacy world. Pro-tip #2: Never side with, or stand up for, losers, because that just makes you a loser too, and guilty by association, even if you signal condemnation, and even if you’re just arguing about ‘rights’. You have to understand this most of all : error has no rights, and any defense of error is just more error. So, watch your mouth. Or else.

03-MAY-2014: Condoleeza Rice spiked from Rutgers Commencement following pressure from leftist student groups. To his credit, Rutgers President Robert Barchiattempted to resist the pressure on principle, but for naught. Rice can go back to filming more ‘Ban Bossy‘ PR-stunts for Facebook now, and maybe be President Sandberg’s Secretary of State or National Security Adviser one day.

07-MAY-2014: David and Jason Benham’s show spiked from HGTV. UPDATE:SunTrust Bank closes their bank account, then relents after uproar. I’m beginning to think that these ‘capitulate, excommunicate, then rehabilitate’ actions are the way that corporations try to please everyone, and have their cake and eat it too. That might be understandable, but it’s not a good result, so the only appropriate policy if you care about this issue is to close your SunTrust account right now and never look back.

13-MAY-2014: YEAR OF THE SPIKED SPEAKER. Now comes Robert J. Birgeneau and Christine Lagarde. “between 1987 and 2008, there were … 21 incidents of an invited guest not speaking. Since 2009 there … 39 cancellations…” Rate of increase? 550%

22-MAY-2014: Mark Cuban under fire for the following ‘comments about race’, “If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it’s late at night, I’m walking to the other side of the street. And if on that side of the street, there’s a guy that has tattoos all over his face – white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere – I’m walking back to the other side of the street.”

06-AUG-214: Steven G. Salaita had his academic job offer rescinded by the University of Illinois for tweeting some very uncivil things about Israel during the latest outbreak of hostilities. NB: I have received a few emails, thankfully civil in tone, but which have accused me of bias and favoritism in the composition of this list. I plead innocent, and assert that [the] reality [of ideological pressure] has a liberal bias, and that instead of a one-sided list, I have tried to be fair, and that the severe asymmetry and disproportion in representation (and in the very selective cases of a broad class of similar injustices for which liberals collectively demand redress) is a social phenomenon and not an artifact of my construction. As corroboration for my claim, I move for the admission into evidence of this particular item, of an individual’s purging for which I would be sympathetic were it not for my much stronger commitment to the higher principle of freedom of expression and robust, disciplined tolerance for diverse viewpoints. That being said, I have to say, given the pattern of these incidents, I predict Mr. Salaita will land firmly on his feet. Stay tuned.

09-OCT-2014: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (sounds like ‘Sat In Nutella’) blasted on Social Media for advising women against asking for raises, and, of course, he almost immediately reverses himself when informed of his transgression.

19-NOV-2014: ‘Abortion culture’ debate shut down by Oxford students. Tim Stanley, pro, and Brendan O’Neill, anti, were both upset, but tough luck for everyone except the hecklers who are allowed to keep their veto.

03-DEC-2014: That’s Just Great Tumblr-sphere: ‘Racists’ Getting Fired (And Getting ‘Racists’ Fired). If you want a vision of the future, imagine a lynch mob of 300 millionPavlik Morozovs, pointing fingers at and outing each other, to each other, forever. Except even little Pavlik made an accurate report, unlike these guys.

09-DEC-2014: Prof. Walter Lewin, celebrated physics teacher, stripped of his emeritus status and barred from campus, and all of his physics lectures removed from OpenCourseWare, because an internal investigation found that he had been sexually harassing students online. He probably did some messed up stuff, who knows. But to completely remove his unrelated and excellent content online? That’s crazy and hurts lots of innocent people. And it is that purifying impulse which is … disturbing. Related thoughts from Scott Aaronson.

13-DEC-2014: Plebcomicspurged from her job for pissing off the Social Media Warriors over at Tubmlr about feminism or rape culture or something … it’s hard to tell.

30-DEC-2014: The Social Media Warriors Feminists pile on Scott Aaronson for only being 97% down with the program. (It’s all or nothing Scott, who notices nothing but the absolute minimum amount of rottenness in Denmark, even as Denmark pounces on him and does its very best to reveal to him what it really is and shove the rest of the stench up his nostrils!) Now, it’s hard to be sympathetic with a guy who does everything he can to fail to update his priors, remain clueless, and instead try to throw other people under the bus and normalize expression of delegitimating sentiment when he says, “Though I don’t consider it legally practicable, as a moral matter I’d be fine if every such [crimethinking] man were thrown in prison for life,” but the incident is still worthy of contemplation. Here’s the intellectually-revolting Amanda Marcotte andLaurie Penny. Here are some better thoughts from Scott Alexander and Lubos Motl.

01-JAN-2015: Katie Hopkins investigated for Ebola tweet. “… around 20,000 people in Britain have been investigated in the past three years for comments made online, with around 20 people a day being looked into by the forces of the law …” Yikes.

05-JAN-2015: Scotland, No Country For Free Speech, “Please be aware that we will continue to monitor comments on social media & any offensive comments will be investigated.” Translation, “Watch your mouth, comrade.”

15-JAN-2015: Whoa, only 18 years after her once ‘transgressive’ play opened in New York, Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologuesgets the boot from Mt Holyoke for beingoffensively and insufficiently inclusive of “people-of-femaleness-self-identification-and-aspiration” but who happen to not presently have, actual, you know, vaginas. The ratchet moves swiftly my friends; the mills grind fine, but fast now too.

17-JAN-2015: 34-year CNN Anchor Jim Clancy purged (and memory-holed), not for trying to spin the ‘real meaning’ of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons in an implausibly nutty way, but for accusing the folks that pushed back of working for Israeli public relations. Wrong target Jim. (HT: Sailer)

20-JAN-2015: Annie Lennox covers ‘Strange Fruit‘, the internet covers her in shaming, because, while she’s got the right kind of voice, well, she’s not the right kind of person.

22-JAN-2015: French court sentences three to fines for nasty ‘homophobic’ tweets. Not that it’s nice to say that gays should die or be burned; duh, it’s not. But take a look around twitter, even à la française, and you’ll see plenty of that kind of thing. But some people get rounded up and tried, while others need not worry. Who, Whom?

27-JAN-2015: Jonathan Chait pens his “Not A Very PC Thing To Say,” which, apparently, itself was not very PC, judging by progressive responses. Some moron named Amanda Taub at Vox does the typical, predictable – and by now quite boring and tiresome – Vox thing by claiming that PC doesn’t exist. ha. Douthat comments(HT: Sailer). And don’t miss Dreher, “Still, I will have a talk with my teenage son today to tell him not to defend anything that might be remotely controversial online, unless he does it under a false name, and leaves no identifying details. Six to eight years from now, when he will be applying for a job or to graduate school, someone, somewhere, will Google him. If he has ever said anything that violates the progressive code, he may be sunk.”

30-JAN-2015: Jill Soloway browbeaten for putting up imitation image containing the word, ‘Transdashian’, imitating the imagery from her own transgender show,Transparent. Trans is so hot right now, but you can never be too holy not to be criticized as a heretic.

05-MAR-2015: New York Baseball Player Daniel Murphy silenced by Mets organization with regard to expressing his honest sentiments relating to his religious views … ok, not really. He can talk about Jesus all he wants, so long as he doesn’t mention homosexuality.

… Too many to count … the more commonplace and boringly predictable is is, the more serious it becomes.

03-JUN-2015: Curtis Yarvin’s Urbit presentation booted from StrangeLoop tech conference. The man has my gratitude and respect, but his fate to live out of any spotlight is sealed. The Heckler’s Veto is the order of the day, and there are so, so many volunteer hecklers these days. “In this case it is clear to me that your opinions in areas outside your talk are concerning enough for a significantly large number of attendees that those reactions are overshadowing the talk and acting as a distraction for launching the conference as a whole. Because of this, I am sorry that I must rescind your invitation and I will not be able to accept or include your talk at the conference.” No Enemies To The Left; No Platform For The Right. Banned with BS Boilerplate. That’s how it ends for the purged, these days. No sticks for you, but no carrots either. And you can’t do much of anything if you’re not holding an official carrot, these days, so it probably feels like a lot like a stick. We will all now have to be much more careful and less free than he was.

And with that – fittingly – FIN for this list. We have been witnesses to the end of the beginning, but alas, it was only the beginning. Now is the time for the wearing of masks.

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Mission Overview

Most Western societies are based on Secular Democracy, which itself is based on the concept that the open marketplace of ideas leads to the optimum government. Whilst that model has been very successful, it has defects. The 4 Freedoms address 4 of the principal vulnerabilities, and gives corrections to them.

At the moment, one of the main actors exploiting these defects, is Islam, so this site pays particular attention to that threat.

Islam, operating at the micro and macro levels, is unstoppable by individuals, hence: "It takes a nation to protect the nation". There is not enough time to fight all its attacks, nor to read them nor even to record them. So the members of 4F try to curate a representative subset of these events.

We hope that free nations will wake up to stop the threat, and force the separation of (Islamic) Church and State. This will also allow moderate Muslims to escape from their totalitarian political system.

The 4 Freedoms

These 4 freedoms are designed to close 4 vulnerabilities in Secular Democracy, by making them SP or Self-Protecting (see Hobbes's first law of nature). But Democracy also requires - in addition to the standard divisions of Executive, Legislature & Judiciary - a fourth body, Protector of the Open Society (POS), to monitor all its vulnerabilities (see also Popper). 1. SP Freedom of SpeechAny speech is allowed - except that advocating the end of these freedoms2. SP Freedom of ElectionAny party is allowed - except one advocating the end of these freedoms3. SP Freedom from Voter ImportationImmigration is allowed -except where that changes the political demography (this is electoral fraud)4. SP Freedom from Debt
The Central Bank is allowed to create debt - except where that debt burden can pass across a generation (25 years).

An additional Freedom from Religion is deducible if the law is applied equally to everyone:

Religious and cultural activities are exempt from legal oversight except where they intrude into the public sphere (Res Publica)"